Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results
The interview took place in a great restaurant in Paris: Yannick Alléno's Pavyllon. … Bluesky: Rob Delaney / @robdelaney : 💩💩💩 [embedded post] SE Gyges / @segyges : this puts a bunch of us in the awkw...
An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists is not for serious mental health issues, upgrading from text to voice, and more
👏 Well done to Tom Pickett for saying this out loud as a CEO. …
In a video and a letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive say io, founded in 2024 by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan will develop new products
Update! It's this: — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Emma Jacobs / @emmavj : Your dad introducing his new partner — openai.com/sam-and-jony/ Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : but what are they actually making????...
OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations, and the nonprofit will hire staff to pursue charitable activities in health care, education, and science
Reality: It's going to take all of Earth's resources, but can build this search engine that kinda works and is trained on stuff we didn't have rights for. Paul J. Dauenhauer / @pauldauenhauer : When b...
A history of text games and interactive fiction, from Infocom to 80 Days, and the roles of MUDs, Usenet, and open source in the 50 years of interactive fiction
MUDs, Usenet, and open source all play a part in 50 years of IF history. — You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Mastodon: @zarfeblong@mastodon … . X: @inklestudios , ...
Sources: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told staff last week that Robin Rombach and other researchers, the key creators of Stable Diffusion, have resigned
Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims 90% of the top 100 advertisers “returned to the platform in the past 12 weeks alone” and that X will be profitable by early 2024
You cannot talk profitability when you are defrauding owed funds to others. … Bluesky: @67sound.bsky.social : This may or may not be true if she is talking operating cash flow but I would bet everythi...
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create
I hope Karya's team keep the balance as they grow in the business world! — https://time.com/... #aiethics #aifairness — [images] Bluesky: Margaret Mitchell / @mmitchell.bsky.social : Really beaut...
A look at Indian nonprofit Karya, which sells AI training data and redirects all the profit to its workers, who retain ownership of the data they create
In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun's glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village … Mastodon: @OmaymaS@dair-community.social . Bluesky: @mmitchel...
Interviews, pitch decks, and internal documents suggest that Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque's recent success was bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people …